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Court and Spark: Gitmo Stonewall and Supreme Swift-Boating  

Chris Floyd   
Friday, 30 June 2006
Pentagon on Supreme Court's Gitmo Ruling: "Who cares?"

From the NYT: "If they rule against the government, I don't see 
how that is going to affect us," the commander, Rear Adm. Harry 
B. Harris, said Tuesday evening as he sat in a conference room 
in his headquarters. "From my perspective, I think the direct 
impact will be negligible."

The Defense Department repeated that view on Thursday, asserting 
that the court's sweeping ruling against the tribunals did not undermine the
government's argument that it can hold foreign 
suspects indefinitely and without charge, as "enemy combatants" 
in its declared war on terror.

So that's OK, then. Naturally, a ruling "against the government," doesn't
affect the Pentagon ƒ€“ because Rumsfeld's Castle is a 
government unto itself, unbound by the petty chains of law that simpering
civilians try to put around the lusty sinews of 
war-fightin' he-men. And of course, as the Pentagon notes, the 
most important thing is that the Bush Regime can continue its 
Nazi/Stalinist/al Qaeda/Vlad the Impaler/Ghenghis Khan/ Assyrian/ Babylonian/
Cro-Magnon policy of grabbing "suspects" and holding 
them "indefinitely without charge."

Thank God for that! How could we ever defend the enlightened 
values of our 21st century civilization if we couldn't stick 
foreign darkies in hidey-holes until they rot?

Meanwhile: When I first heard of the ruling, I thought: Wonder 
when the swift-boating of John Paul Stevens will begin? For just 
as sure as Little Dubya loves peanut-butter sandwiches (with the 
crusts cut off, of course), the 86-year-old Republican Justice 
who wrote the decision is going to be dragged through the Bushist 
slime machine, and in short order.

Little did I realize that the smear campaign actually began in 
the Court itself, in the dissent by Clarence Thomas, the sick 
joke played on the nation by that other smirking, cynical bastard 
named George Bush who befouled the Oval Office with his presence 
years ago. But as we learn from the American Constitution 
Society (via Atrios), Thomas ƒ€“ an incompetent blowhard who 
rode to power on the right-wing escalator after a career of 
providing aid and comfort to the deep-cover racists in the party 
he so avidly served ƒ€“ took a nasty swipe at Stevens in his 
frothing dissent. Taking a melodramatic turn by reading out 
his hissy fit from the bench for the first time in his 15 
years on the Court, Thomas cited Stevens' "unfamiliarity 
with the realities of warfare" as the basis of his anti-Bush 
ruling.

But as ACS points out, Stevens served in the U.S. Navy from 
1942 to 1945 ƒ€“ years during which a serving military man 
might have indeed garnered at least a modicum of familiarity 
with the realities of warfare. Thomas, of course, is yet 
another hard-right chickenhawk who never served ƒ€“ yet presumes 
to lecture a World War II vet (and Bronze Star recipient) 
about war's reality.

Really now: has there ever been a political faction that 
lived more in its own little fantasy world? Has there ever 
been such a collection of cowards who blustered so hysterically 
about their own macho all the time? How on God's earth did a 
great nation fall under the sway of such shallow fools?

http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=722&Itemid=1

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Chris Floyd has hit the nail on the head.


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